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Untruthfulness Quotes

Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat. On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence,... Walter Kaufmann
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering. Mahatma Gandhi
Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also..either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths. John Steinbeck
There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude Thornton Wilder
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves. William Shakespeare
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence"
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence Mahatma Gandhi
Elizabeth Gaskell quote: "Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want..."
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. Elizabeth Gaskell
George Orwell quote: "The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it."
The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it. George Orwell
TO RECOGNISE UNTRUTH AS A CONDITION OF LIFE; that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner, and a philosophy which ventures to do so, has thereby alone placed itself beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche
Now, helpless in the hollow of. An unarmorial age, a trough. Of smoke in slow suspended skeins. Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into. Untruth. The stone finality. They hardly meant has come to be. Their final blazon, and to prove. Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love. Philip Larkin
Today's education is entirely defective to the extent that, calling itself positivist, it begins with abusing the child's trust by presenting as true what is only either a temporary phenomenon or a hypothesis, when it's not a blatant untruth; and to the extent that it prevents children from forming in good time their own opinions by creasing into them certain habits that make their freedom of judgement an illusion Andre Breton
George R. R. Martin quote: "Is that true? There is truth in it. And lies as well? There is..."
Is that true? There is truth in it. And lies as well? There is an untruth, and an exaggeration. George R. R. Martin
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and..."
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. Kurt Vonnegut
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche
Time has transfigured them into. Untruth. The stone fidelity. They hardly meant has come to be. Their final blazon, and to prove. Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love. Philip Larkin

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